EditorialLabor organizers promote the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union, outside an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., March 12, 2021. (Bob Miller/The New York Times)
EditorialAn organizer with the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union holds a sign outside the Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Ala., March 12, 2021. (Bob Miller/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Amazon BHM1 facility showing signage encouraging workers to cast a ballot to vote in Bessemer, Ala. on March 26, 2021. (Charity Rachelle/The New York Times)
Editorial Union organizers canvass the entrance to an Amazon fulfillment warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., on March 12, 2021. The vote to unionize workers there failed. (Bob Miller/The New York Times)
EditorialState Rep. Merika Coleman, a Democrat and the assistant minority leader in the Alabama House of Representatives, in Bessemer, Ala. on Sept. 10, 2021. (Andi Rice/The New York Times)
EditorialCurtis Gray, the vice president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, outside the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., March 12, 2021. (Bob Miller/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Amazon BHM1 facility with signage encouraging workers to cast a ballot on whether or not to join the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, in Bessemer, Ala., on March 26, 2021. (Charity Rachelle/The New York Times)
EditorialLabor organizers promote the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union, outside an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., on March 12, 2021. (Bob Miller/The New York Times)
EditorialUnion organizers distribute literature as employees exit the Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Ala., on Dec. 13, 2021.?(Bob Miller/The New York Times)
EditorialCurtis Gray of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union on March 12, 2021, outside the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., where a vote on forming a union is being held. (Bob Miller/The New York Times)
EditorialLabor organizers promote the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union, outside an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., on March 12, 2021. (Bob Miller/The New York Times)
EditorialMembers of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union distribute literature outside the warehouse where Amazon workers are voting whether to join the union in Bessemer, Ala., Dec. 13, 2020. (Bob Miller/The New York Times)
EditorialKumasi Amin drove nearly 100 miles from his home in Montgomery, Ala., to show support for the unionization effort at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala. (Bob Miller/The New York Times)
EditorialMembers of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union distribute literature outside the warehouse where Amazon workers are voting whether to join the union in Bessemer, Ala., Dec. 13, 2020. (Bob Miller/The New York Times)
EditorialDarryl Richardson, one of the workers seeking to unionize an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., says he was heartened by President Joe Biden’s message of support for the workers’ rights. (Lynsey Weatherspoon/The New York Times)
EditorialMona Darby, a union representative, working as part of the campaign to unionize Amazon’s fulfillment center in Bessemer, Ala., Dec. 13, 2020. (Bob Miller/The New York Times)
EditorialUnion organizers offer literature to employees departing the Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Ala., on Dec. 13, 2020. (Bob Miller/The New York Times)
EditorialUnion organizers talk to Amazon workers when they are stopped at a traffic light outside the warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., on Dec. 13, 2020. (Bob Miller/The New York Times)